Living in Denial

12/17/2012

The ELCA’s Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson was interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio concerning the recent news of Luther Seminary, the denomination’s largest seminary, having extreme financial difficulties.

Here is one section from the interview -

Interviewer: “You are the head of the nation’s largest Lutheran denomination, the ELCA. And as you know, you’ve lost about 600 or so congregations after that controversial decision allowing openly gay and lesbian pastors to service. Is a drop in seminary enrollment a refection of that decision at all?”

Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson: “I don’t, I don’t see that. In fact, many young adults that I encounter, that I am on Twitter with and that I’m constantly in conversation with, in fact see that as a source of hope for this church and something that is drawing them into the life of this church.” (listen here)

Under Mark Hanson’s leadership, perversion was promenaded into the church with joyous celebration. Sinful acts against God have been declared good. When a church turns its back on God, godly men and women will leave and take their tithes with them. But as we read above, the leader of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is living in denial by not seeing that the disregard for God and His Word is the main reason for it being a dying, financially-challenged denomination.

3 Comments

Dave from Minnesota

12/17/2012 02:31:57 pm

So Hanson judges support for the ELCA by what he sees on Twitter? And makes decisions based on this? Orthodox leaders in the Catholic Church look to the Bible and Catholic catechism instead of Twitter for guidance.

Bryan Anderson

12/17/2012 04:29:31 pm

I cannot and will not support Luther Seminary anymore BECAUSE of the ELCA theological positions. I was a student there frpm 96-00.

Didaskalos link

12/18/2012 11:02:39 pm

"Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson: 'I don’t, I don’t see that. In fact, many young adults that I encounter, that I am on Twitter with and that I’m constantly in conversation with, in fact see that [convention vote endorsing homosexual sex] as a source of hope for this church and something that is drawing them into the life of this church.' ”

Boasting on behalf of himself, many of his pastors and bishops, and his convention delegates who voted to reclassify sin, the head bishop of the Ear-tickling Lutheran Church in America tries to explain why Jesus' warning [ “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea."] doesn't apply to all of them: "A bunch of tech-savvy kids agree with our vote. After all, we in the ELCA are just lining up with what our kids are being taught in school (our seminaries included), what they see on TV, and what their pop psychologists preach to them."

When the "source of hope for this [ELCA] church" and the "life of this church" are its agreement with the world to mutually endorse sin, the Lord of the Church would say to the ELCA, "I know your doings--you are supposed to be alive, but in reality you are dead."

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